Sentence examples for Meager population from inspiring English sources

What's left over makes it deep under the surface and supports a meager population of microbes, which is too small to deplete all the oxygen.

He told me that one of his chief concerns was how he could preserve the cultural identity of the nation's relatively meager population of 722,000 as the revenues from 1.1 billion barrels of proven oil reserves came rolling in.

To fill the gap in available housing for a surging transient workforce, company-housing units – known as "man camps" – have sprung up on the outskirts of once meager population centers.

An earlier Hong Kong study that relied on expressed intent to predict vaccination uptake [11] failed to accurately predict the subsequent meager population uptake of pH1N1 vaccination by, at best, an order of magnitude [64], suggesting that intention alone is insufficient for predicting future vaccination uptake, consistent with empirical findings in other areas [33], [42].

North of Mongolia and of China's three northeastern provinces lies Russia's Far East region, a numbing vastness twice the size of Europe with a meager and shrinking population and large reserves of natural gas, oil, timber, diamonds and gold.

This financing is a meager effort to stabilize population and help poor countries build prosperous, democratic societies.

While this dam is too small to flood any villages, the trickle of water that flows downstream below it is too meager to support native fish populations.

But as Premont I.S.D. struggles to make improvements, critics blame the state's academic accountability and school finance systems, saying they unjustly punish districts that serve largely low-income populations and get meager per-student financing.

As an LGBTQ resident, I felt only minimally comforted by the fact that such disdain resides within a meager minority of our town's population.

This doesn't apply to New York, but it does to many of the other cities above: Places that have been declining in population, and that have had meager income growth, tend to have lower levels of happiness.

Brought back from a meager 5,000 in the 50's, the flamingo population there has grown to more than 30,000.